Moore Impact: The Darla Moore School of Business Podcast

Season 2 Episode 18 Short Term Rentals Get the Academic Treatment in Charleston Event Host Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Guest Dr. Mark Ferguson, Dewey H. Johnson Professor of Management Science The South Carolina legislature is considering taking action on short-term rentals and several local county councils and city councils have already done so. In this episode, w...

Season 2 Episode 17 Freshly Minted Alumni Share their Excitement for the Future Host Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Guest Laurel Ray Treadway, recent graduate Trey DeTurris, recent graduate Trey and Laurel are recent graduates (like from a week ago) from the Darla Moore School of business and joined Dr. Whitener in the studio to cut up about the experience they had on...

Season 2 Episode 16 What we know about remote work with Anthony Nyberg Host Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Guest Dr. Anthony Nyberg, J. Henry Fellers Professor of Management, Faculty Director for the Center for Executive Succession There’s a trend in workforce dynamics right now to return to office, or end remote work arrangements. To respond to that, we brought Dr. A...

Season 2 Episode 15 Global Interconnectedness Through Business Host Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Guest Dr. Jason DeBacker, Associate Professor of Economics, Darla Moore School of Business It’s like the tax Super Bowl in April 2025 as income tax is waffling between expirations and renewals, South Carolina is looking at moving toward a flat tax, and the President is h...

Season 2 Episode 14 Global Interconnectedness Through Business Host Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Guest Dr. Christina Ahmadjian, Visiting Scholar at the Folks Center Americans are invested overseas, many times through their own 401k or pension fund. That investment creates an interdependence, a reliance on international businesses for one’s own investment security an...

Season 2 Episode 13 Slow Scholarship but Super Fast Start-Ups Host Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Guest Brandon Mendez, Clinical Assistant Professor, Finance Brandon Mendez is a clinical assistant professor of finance at the Darla Moore School of Business. He teaches courses in corporate finance and investments. His professional experience includes time in financial s...

Moore Impact Season 2 Episode 12 Changing the World Through Business Host Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Guest Dean Kress, Director of the Faber Entrepreneurship Center, retired Dean Kress brought his entrepreneurial journey through fast food restaurant chains, graduate school, and the Small Business Development Center to the Moore School in and only recently retired....

Season 2 Episode 11 Emergency Center Wait Times and Other BIG Healthcare Economy Questions Host Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Guest Dr. Orgul Ozturk, James A. Morris Professor of Economics, Executive Director, Economic Policy Center (EPiC) Dr. Orgul Demet Ozturk is the department chair and professor of economics in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University...

S2 E10 Amy Thomson and the Folks Center for International Business Host Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Guest Amy Thomson, Executive Director, Folks Center  Amy Thomson’s career spans the South Carolina Department of Commerce, the US Department of Commerce, and offices in China, Taiwan, Korea, India, Germany, and Japan. She is the Executive Director of the Darla Moore...

S2E9  Gearing up for Give 4 Garnet Host: Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Department, Moore School of Business Guest: Mark Richter, Senior Director of Development, Moore School of Business Guest: Baylee Shipes, Director of Annual Giving, Moore School of Business  On Wednesday, March 26, 2025 and Thursday, March 27th, the University of South Carolina will host its annual...

S2E8  SC following the path of an Emerging Market Host: Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Department, Moore School of Business Guest: Dr. Gerald McDermott, Department Chair and Professor of International Business at the Darla Moore School of Business Dr. Gerald A. McDermott, “Gerry,” is the department chair and a professor of international business at the Darla Moore Sch...

Name, Image, Likeness Entrepreneurship and Learning Best Practices through Professional Organizations (USASBE makes its radio debut) Host:  Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Guest: Dr. Geoffrey Graybeal, Clinical Associate Professor, Management Dr. Geoffrey Graybeal teaches entrepreneurship in the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina and is genera...

Starting that “Our country might be corrupt” conversation Host Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Department Guest Dr. Chris Yenkey, Associate Professor, International Business Let’s talk about corruption. What are the symptoms of a corrupt government? Are we seeing them in our own U.S. government? Dr. Chris Yenkey shares his research on the topic. Chris Yenkey is an asso...

College Tuition and Transfer Choices with Dr. Lois Miller Host Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Department Guest Dr. Lois Miller, Assistant Professor, Economics Department Let’s talk about college tuition. How it’s gone up, how students and their parents pay for it, and what state legislatures are doing to try to reign it in. Lois Miller is an Assistant Professor in the...

Feeding the Entrepreneurial Spirit with Caroline Crowder Host Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Department Guest Caroline Crowder, Executive Director of The Boyd Innovation Center Powered by GrowCo Caroline Crowder is a two-time alum of the Moore School and now an instructor in the Management Department teaching entrepreneurship. Her journey is one of discovery far and wide...

S2 E3 Athletes Share what Sports taught them about business Host: Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Department, Moore School of Business Guest: Lisa W. Burgess, Class of ‘99, MBA ‘01, Senior Relationship Manager, Commercial Banking, Regions Bank Guest: Briana Reckling, Class of ‘22, Associate Sales Representative, Smith & Nephew Sports Medicine On Thursday, February 6, 2...

S2 E2 Bringing Businesses into the School Host: Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Department,Darla Moore School of Business  Guest: Jamie Peebles, Employer Relations Manager at the Darla Moore School of Business Office of Career Management The Moore School’s Office of Career Management focuses on the critical metric of job placement and assists our constituents in severa...

The Long-term Impacts on Students of Teacher Incentive Pay Programs Host Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor Guest: Dr. Orgul Ozturk, Department Chair, Economics Dr. Orgul Demet Ozturk is the department chair and professor of economics in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Her academic research interests are in applied microeconomics fields, specifical...

Connections that Matter: The Moore School Mentor Program Host Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Guest Corey Mikels, Director of Alumni Engagement The extensive Moore School Alumni Network is seeded in undergrad and leveraged by the Office of Career Management (see episode 19) but it’s primary care giver is the Office of Alumni Engagement and in this episode, we talk with Dir...

The Moore School’s Bridge to Careers is OCM and Kacie Ingram is a guide Host Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Guest Kacie Ingram, Senior Career Coach at the Darla Moore Office of Career Management The Office of Career Management at the Moore School is a strategic competitive advantage for our students. As 10-year career coach Kacie Ingram shares, if you name a career “need”...

The Founder Mentality in Caroline Crowder’s Start Up Experience Host Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor Guest Caroline Crowder, Moore School alumna and Director of the Boyd Innovation Center powered by GrowCo If you’re doing entrepreneurship in Columbia, you’re going to hear Caroline Crowder’s name. She’s been hanging around startups since undergrad and after achieving her graduate degre...

EPIC: the Newest Center at Darla Moore Host Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor Guest: Dr. Orgul Ozturk, Department Chair, Economics Orgul Demet Ozturk is the department chair and professor of economics in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Her academic research interests are in applied microeconomics fields, specifically labor economics and health eco...

Host: Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Guest: Dr. Sanjay Ahire, Michael J. Mungo Distinguished Professor, Co-Director, Operations and Supply Chain Center The operations and supply chain undergrad program at the Moore School retained its No. 3 Gartner ranking, and moved up to No. 5 in graduate ranking in 2024. This marks the first Top 5 ranking for the graduate program. The...

Episode 15: Do the Work: The Faber Center’s Speaker Series features Aaron & Candice Hark, USC Alumni Owners of Maxient Host: Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Interviewer: Dr. Jeff Savage, Director of the Faber Entrepreneurship Center Caroline Byrd, USC Alum ‘23 Guests: Aaron & Candice Hark, USC Alumni and founders of Maxient USC Alumni Aaron and Candice Hark visited the Fab...

Episode 14: The Moore School Experience for Scholars & Learners Host: Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Guest: Dr. Audrey Korsgaard, Senior Associate Dean for Academics and Research, Darla Moore School of Business M. Audrey Korsgaard is the Senior Associate Dean for Research and Academics, and a professor of management and organizational behavior at the Darla Moore School of...